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thenewgreen  ·  4140 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Suggestion: hubski should propose new people to follow

I wonder if having a trending topics list would stifle serendipity? mk what do you think?





neptath  ·  4139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What about something like this on the community page: (the numbers here are foobars)?

where the syntax is #tag: [posts in last 24h] | [posts in last 7d] | [lifetime posts]

This would allow users to see which tags were popular due to recent events (i.e., if the fist two numbers were very close to the third) or which are popular over the long term. Perhaps the timeframes could be customizable in the user's settings, I could see day, week, month, year, and lifetime each being useful in certain situations.

thenewgreen  ·  4139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting idea neptath, thank you. b_b, what do you think?

b_b  ·  4139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's a great idea. We've had "trending tags", but that doesn't give any quantitative idea about how often a tag is used. I like just putting the info out there for people who are interested.